Critical Comparison: CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Ryman Healthcare (OTCMKTS:RYHTY)

Ryman Healthcare (OTCMKTS:RYHTY) and CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) are both medical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Ryman Healthcare and CVS Health’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ryman Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A
CVS Health	0.12%	11.45%	3.40%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Ryman Healthcare and CVS Health”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ryman Healthcare	$451.64 million	N/A	-$259.39 million	N/A	N/A
CVS Health	$372.81 billion	0.26	$4.61 billion	$0.38	202.11

CVS Health has higher revenue and earnings than Ryman Healthcare.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

80.7% of CVS Health shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of CVS Health shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Ryman Healthcare has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVS Health has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Ryman Healthcare and CVS Health, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ryman Healthcare	0	0	0	0	0.00
CVS Health	0	4	19	0	2.83

CVS Health has a consensus price target of $94.82, indicating a potential upside of 23.46%. Given CVS Health’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Ryman Healthcare.

Summary

CVS Health beats Ryman Healthcare on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ryman Healthcare

Ryman Healthcare Limited develops, owns, and operates integrated retirement villages, rest homes, and hospitals for the elderly in New Zealand and Australia. The company's villages provide a range of retirement living and care options, such as independent townhouses and apartments, and serviced apartments, as well as a care center, which offers rest homes, hospitals, dementia-level care, and respite and day care services. Its villages also provide all-weather bowling green, indoor heated swimming pool and spa, gym, internal atrium, beauty and hair salons, library, dining area, bar, lounges, croquet laws, shops, and movie theatre facilities. The company owns and operates retirement village units and care units. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

About CVS Health

CVS Health Corporation provides health solutions in the United States. It operates through Health Care Benefits, Health Services, and Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segments. The Health Care Benefits segment offers traditional, voluntary, and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services. It serves employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups, and expatriates. The Health Services segment offers pharmacy benefit management solutions, including plan design and administration, formulary management, retail pharmacy network management, specialty and mail order pharmacy, clinical, disease management, and medical spend management services. It serves employers, insurance companies, unions, government employee groups, health plans, prescription drug plans, Medicaid managed care plans, CMS, plans offered on public health insurance, and other sponsors of health benefit plans. The Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness segment sells prescription and over-the-counter drugs, consumer health and beauty products, and personal care products. This segment also distributes prescription drugs; and provides related pharmacy consulting and other ancillary services to care facilities and other care settings. It operates online retail pharmacy websites, LTC pharmacies and on-site pharmacies, retail specialty pharmacy stores, compounding pharmacies and branches for infusion and enteral nutrition services. The company was formerly known as CVS Caremark Corporation and changed its name to CVS Health Corporation in September 2014. CVS Health Corporation was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.